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As you may have heard, we’re walking away from members who send in keyword and keyphrase repetition abuse because it provides for a poor user experience and destroys credibility.

This week, we opened up one of our proprietary article review tools so that our members can see what our editors see when our automated repetition-abuse system identifies a potential keyword or keyphrase abuse.

If your article was soft-rejected for keyword/keyphrase abuse, you’ll be able to immediately see the excessive keywords or keyphrases or both are highlighted.

I’ve purposely made the image on the right very small to protect the member who abused a 3-word keyphrase (10) times in a ~390 word count article [that’s excessive].

We were hesitant to turn this information over because we didn’t want to encourage gaming of the system; yet if we didn’t turn this info over, we’d have to manually tell the member the same information when they emailed asking for help as to why we didn’t accept the article.

In 2008, one of our larger member-user-experience priorities is to provide more information when an article is soft-rejected so that the member can solve their own problems faster.

BTW, since I’m using the words “soft-rejection”, I thought I’d define it: It means we like you and your article and think we could possibly still accept your content if you were able to fix one or a few small issues to make it compliant with the spirit of our editorial guidelines. “soft-rejection” is more like “not accepted yet…” and we’ll help you discover what needs to be done to get it accepted.

That’s great communication, Chris, thanks. I know I am still puzzled, because somewhere I read to power pack with those 3 key words, but then to make your point and make it a readable title is something I for one am still puzzling through. What hurts me is the fear that I am kind of giving up getting my maximum GET to at least get the article up. So, any advice on this will really help your better GIVE people to receive, like Oliver, please sir I am still hungry, how do I get my porridge while we GIVE. Thx. Derek

But, the percentage has not climbed since we made our position clear last month and we manually re-reviewed every single one of the 2000+ articles in our keyword/keyphrase abuse status to make sure our editors didn’t improperly reject an article.

I’m seeing positive signs that the small percentage of wayward keyword repetition abusers have moved on to do their business elsewhere.

I appreciate having access to this tool. Many times we are in the dark when comes to finding out specifically what the editor is referring to. The editors have made a lot of mistakes as far as keyword spamming goes. In the past 3 months we have had at least 7 articles rejected with less than 3 keyword phrases in 600 plus word articles. When have contacted support they are approved. This situation has greatly improved recently. I thank you for all the assistance you have provided to us in improving our articles.

I am new to everything so obviously I am a beginner article writer. I had heard so many conflicting things about what you do and don’t do and allow. I decided to come to the boss and see what was going on.

The articles that I have been reading (and saving in my “learning bank”) have been extremely helpful. Thanks!

Does having access to this tool mean it is something we can do before we submit or does it mean that if an article is “soft-rejected” that our email will be similar to the example?

I’ve read a lot of comments here. And I agree with one thing — everyone needs to submit original content. Describe your articles in detail and more specifically so that everyone knows what your article is about.

By submitting only original content you might feel better about your article and you will not have to use key-words too often. (I am still not clear on specifically what keywords you are speaking of).

I recently saw an article (not here) that sold some sort of glove (I googled Grysczk Gloves and there are no listings).

Title: Grysczk Gloves.
H1: Grysczk Gloves for the working man
Body: Grysczk Gloves are the glove of the working man, the real man. The Working man knows that his Grysczk Gloves will last him years because Grysczk Gloves….

Painful.
I actually read the text just to see if there was any real value beyond keyword saturation, and the article would not have been bad if written without his keyword so heavy.

The writer had a keyword saturation Grysczk Gloves in 100% of the paragraphs, greater than 75% of the sentences and overall – probably over 20% saturation.